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DUMPING GAR.

N0.'387,618. PatentedAug. 14, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFlCEi CHARLES E. BARBER AND TIMOTHY F. FIN IGAN, OF \VATERLOO, NE\V YORK, ASSIGNORS TO CORNELIUS J. RYAN, OF FLUSHING, NE\V YORK, AND JOHN B. MCDONALD, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

DUMPlNG-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,618, dated August 14, 1888.

Application filed December 1'7, 1887. Serial No. 258,194. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- is hook shaped and projects slightly from that Be it known that we, CHARLES E. BARBER side of the car on which the gate D is hung, and TIMOTHY F. FINIGAN, citizens of the and the opposite end projects sufficiently from United States, and residents of Waterloo, in the opposite side of the car to be grasped, or 5 5 the county of Seneca and State of New York, to serve as a handle to permit the lever to be have invented certain new and useful Improvevibrated with facility.

ments in Dumping-Oars, of which the follow- Eis ahook or catch pivoted to the front side ing is a specification. of the car-box, and so arranged as to tempo- This invention relates to that class of damp rarily lock or hold the lever G in the position 60 o ingcars which dump the load at the side of itoccupies while retaining the gate in its closed the track. position, or while the car is loaded and its box Our purpose is to improve the means emis in a horizontal or level position, as will hereployed for tilting the car and for releasing and inafter be more fully explained. The hookfastening the gate. We also aim to improve the shaped end of the hook Eis beveled, as shown 6 [5 means employed for hinging the gate to its at d, so that as the lever G is pushed or moved posts, all of which we will now describe,makagainst this beveled portion the hook will ing reference in so doing to the accompanying thereby be raised, so as to permit the lever to drawings, in which pass underneath the hook, which will fall and Figure l is a side elevation of a dumpingengage the lever when it reaches the limit of car embodying our improvements. Fig. 2 is its movement in that direction, thus tempo a like representation showing the box in its rarily retaining the leverin that position. It tilted position. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of will be perceived that the hook E is raised the car, showing the box in its tilted position. automatically, or by the act of moving the Fig. 4 is a rear View of the car, and Fig. 5 is lever Ounderneath it,sufficient1y to be engaged 7 2 5 a sectional detail illustrative of the means em in the manner described, and that it falls or ployed for hinging the gate. gravitates to its engagement with the lever af- Like letters of reference indicate like parts. ter the latter passes the point or engaging A represents the truck, and B the box or shoulder or offset of the hook. To prevent the receptacle for the load. The box is hinged to hook E from assuming a pendent position, its 80 3o thetruckframe in such a manner as to be capafree end may rest on the side rail or bar, 6, of ble of being so tilted as to (lump or deposit the the box B; or a small pin, 0, maybe arranged load at the side of the track. In the example to support the said hook horizontally; or the shown eyebolts a, Fig. 3, are secured to the hook may be elongated or extended beyond its box, and engage or interlock with loops or stabevel sutiiciently to rest at all times upon the 85 5 ples b, secured to the truck-frame in such a lever (l, as indicated by the broken or dotted manner as to permit the tilting movement relines shown atf; but we do not here intend to ferred to; but the manner of hinging the box be restricted to any particular means for reto the truck is not a feature of our present intaining the catch E in position for engagement vention, and we do not, therefore, here intend with the lever 0. 9o to be restricted thereto, as any other means F is a bar applied to the gate D,and adapted suitable for that purpose may be employed in and arranged to be engaged by thehookshaped a car embodying our improvements. end of the lever 0 when the gate D is closed, 0 is a lever pivoted to the box B, (or to its it being understood that the said gate swings frame bars or beams) as, for example, at the to its closed position when the car-box is 5 point c, Fig. 2, so as to permit the lever to be changed from a tilted to a horizontal position.

vibrated from right to left, or in the direction To'lock the gate temporarily in its closed poof the ends of the car. This lever is arranged, sition, it is only necessary to push the lever O as shown, upon the bottom of the car-box, so sufficiently underneath the catch E to permit as not to be interfered with by the load or by the latter to fall into engagement with the too the contents of the box, and extends across the lever. This movement also carries the hooked box from side to side. One end of the said lever end of the lever into engagement with the bar F. lifting the *atch E and move the lever out of engagement with the said catch. This latter movement will carry the hook-shaped end of the lever out of engagement with the bar F and allow the gate to swing open when the car is tilted for dumping the load.

E is a fixed bar on the truck -frame, under which bar thelever 0 passes to lock the boxll.

G G are vertical bars or posts applied to the ends of the gate D, and H ll are bars or posts applied to those corners of the box 15 to which the gate is hung. lhesc bars all extend somewhat beyond the gate and box, as illustrated.

I and lare metallic disks applied by means of screws or otherwise to the posts G and 11', respectively, and these disks have hubs g, which enter the said posts, as is indicated in Fig. Both disks are centrally bored, as shown, to receive a belt, J, which passes through them and also through the said posts. One of these (iisks-lorexample,the disk l-has an annular concentric rib, /1, on its outward face, and the other disk has a corresponding groove, 71, into which the rib h extends.

.l is a nut on the outer or screwthreaded end of the bolt J.

Hereiol'ore the strain or pressure of the load upon the closed gatehasbecn resisted or borne mostly by the bolt referred to,or by its equivalent, and this strain has been suil'ieient under spine circumstances to bend the bolt, and thereby prevent the gate from swinging freely.

To unlock the gate, release the lever C by It is the purpose of our invention to obviate this objection, and it will be perceived on reference to the drawings, and particularly on examination of Fig. 5, that when the parts serving as a hinge or joint for the gate are arranged together, as there shown, almost the entire strain is divided by the disks I and l and the posts to which they are applied, the bolt merely performing the function, in conjunction with the nut K, of holding or clamping the parts properly in place.

Having thus described our invention, What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The con'ibination, in a tilting dumping-car having a swinging gate, ofa truck having thereon a catch, E, a tilting box hinged to the said truck and having pivoted thereto a lever,(), and a gravitating lever-catch, E, the gate I), having thereon a bar or catch, F, the bars or posts G and lit, the metallic disks I and I, having annular concentric ribs and grooves, and the bolts .l .T and their nuts, arranged for opera tion together substantially as and for the pur poses specified.

iiigned at "Waterloo, in the county of Seneca and State of New York, this 13th day of December, A. l). 1887.

CHARLES E. .iARHEIt. 'lIMOTIlY F. FINIGAN. Witnesses:

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